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When Shadow Died
When Zara sees her beloved teacher crying, she wants to know what's wrong. Mrs Baker is honest about the death of her beloved old dog - but then all the children want to know more.
Mrs Baker takes them through why living things die, what we might feel, what we do next, and the different beliefs people have about what happens after death.
Mrs Baker takes them through why living things die, what we might feel, what we do next, and the different beliefs people have about what happens after death.
36 pages, Paperback
Published August 11, 2025
About the author
Candy Lawrence
7 books2 followersCandy Lawrence is a teacher by trade, but has been a writer and prizewinning poet since her teens. She won the Sydney Morning Herald’s 'Great Sonnet Competition 2000', receiving high praise from judge Amy Witting.
Teaching children and their carers to understand and work through their strong emotions and social challenges is her Holy Grail. Her picture books, written and illustrated since retirement gifted her time, are wonderfully real stories which children love, but they are also valuable teaching resources.
Candy is autistic and has survived cancer, loss, natural disasters and bullying. The wisdom she's drawn from adverse events informs her writing and helps her to communicate others’ experiences in her biographical works.
She can make you think and make you cry, but also has a wickedly funny turn of phrase. She lives in a wooden cottage in the forest in Northern NSW, Australia with her partner and two rescue dogs, where they look after 40ha of conservation area and laugh every day.
Teaching children and their carers to understand and work through their strong emotions and social challenges is her Holy Grail. Her picture books, written and illustrated since retirement gifted her time, are wonderfully real stories which children love, but they are also valuable teaching resources.
Candy is autistic and has survived cancer, loss, natural disasters and bullying. The wisdom she's drawn from adverse events informs her writing and helps her to communicate others’ experiences in her biographical works.
She can make you think and make you cry, but also has a wickedly funny turn of phrase. She lives in a wooden cottage in the forest in Northern NSW, Australia with her partner and two rescue dogs, where they look after 40ha of conservation area and laugh every day.
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